Business reporters for national newspapers tend to be at their best when they provide detailed, play-by-play coverage of major events in the U.S. auto industry. Unfortunately, they haven’t been as good in analyzing why things […]
(EXPANDED FROM 12/29/2023) This is another Indie Auto story that has received a fair amount of blowback. For example, one presumably former reader alleged that I was a “Chevy fanboy” because I called the 1968-70 […]
The American automotive media has paid relatively little attention to the 2024 presidential race despite some observers suggesting that it could be unusually consequential. Andrew J. Hawkins (2024) concluded that this “election will decide what […]
(UPDATED FROM 8/7/2020) I enjoy reading automotive designers talk about what it was like to back in the 1960s. A part of me is interested purely for the nostalgia of it all. But another part […]
(ORIGINALLY POSTED 5/24/2014) Many are called but few are chosen to be professional automotive writers. Some things you can’t control, like technological change and media consolidation. However, aspiring writers can increase their odds of success by […]
A while back Jalopnik solicited reader stories about really bad automotive loan deals. If you haven’t yet read the story and its comment thread, they are worth a quick look — if you can stomach […]
“Cars and the car business infect some people’s blood, which is why that agglomeration of machinery and brains and money we call Detroit functions as a state of mind as much as an industry, not […]
Ezra Klein (2021) recently commented that “it seems odd that we would just let the world burn.” As a case in point, after summarizing climate change’s escalating predations, he argued that even President Biden’s plan […]
Last week I was once again reminded of the Bruce Springsteen song, “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On),” when surveying the automotive media. The major outlets fell all over themselves to cover many of the same […]
A recent New York Times story on the flying car industry didn’t explicitly compare it to the early automobile pioneers, but it’s not hard to see the parallels. Flying car entrepreneurs speak in lofty terms, […]
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